Pushkin Lev Sergeyevich: the life story of an amazing person

Pushkin Lev Sergeevich (1805-1852 gg.) In itself was no less gifted by nature than his elder brother Alexander, but he spent his whole life bathing in the rays of his glory. In that intellectual milieu in which he lived and was brought up, too high strata were raised for him, he did not want to vegetate in everyday vanity, and he could not take the height, so he became a more complex and tragic figure.

Lev Sergeevich Pushkin: Biography

In the Pushkin family, the youngest son Leo was born on April 17, 1805 in Moscow. Just after the war with Napoleon in 1814, they moved to St. Petersburg and settled near the Haymarket.

In 1815, the boy entered the Main German School of St. Lutheran Church. Petra, then studied at the Noble Boarding House of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, later - in the Noble Boarding House of the Main Pedagogical Institute.

The younger brother of the great poet was at one time the literary secretary of Alexander Pushkin, then by fate he was destined to become a military officer, a participant in the Persian wars and a knight of Russian orders.

Childhood

Alexander was very close to his sister Olga, with Leo they will come closer later. Up to five years he was nursed Arina Rodionovna and Lyubasha. Nadezhda Osipovna was very fond of her youngest son Levushka and very spoiled him. This could be explained by the fact that of the eight children she had borne, five died.

Lyova grew up a real family friend. The father in his letters called him "his Benjamin" - a character from the Old Testament Bible. In 1814, ten-year-old Lev was decided to send to study in St. Petersburg, in the Noble Boarding House. And after him the whole family moved. Mother did not want to part with her son for a single day.

In 1817, when he was transferred to the Noble Boarding House of the Main Pedagogical Institute, his family immediately rented an apartment on the Fontanka, and Levushka was visited daily.

Kühlä

The home environment in the Lyceum was also created by Lyova's favorite teacher of literature, Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, who lived at the boarding house, and his friends - A. Pushkin, E. Baratynsky, A. Delvig and others - often came to him.

In 1821, Pushkin Lev Sergeevich and several other boarding school pupils were expelled for "rebellion", which happened due to the dismissal of Kiichelbecker. They did not want to listen to the lectures of the new teacher, during the classes they extinguished the candles and even fought with the guard.

At this time, AS Pushkin was in the Southern exile, and Lev was in the parental home. The summer of 1824, Lev spent with his parents and sister in Mikhailovskoye and enthusiastically welcomed the unexpectedly arrived elder brother Alexander. They became even more friends and talked about many things. This long and serene conversation, alas, they are no longer destined to be discovered.

Pushkin's brother - Lev Sergeevich

Alexander in March 1821 estimated his brother in the years of his youth a clever man and with a wonderful soul. While still a pupil of the boarding house, Pushkin Lev Sergeyevich plunged into that bohemian literary and theatrical environment, which was familiar to Alexander. He liked to visit Zhukovsky, the salon of Karamzin, Turgenev, Vyazemsky, almost every day he visited Delvig and even fell in love with Alexander Voeikov.

In the autumn of November 1824, he joined the Department of Foreign Religions, and two years later resigned and went to serve as a cadet in the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment.

Alexander Ssylny made Lion his representative in St. Petersburg. It must be said that the latter had a very beautiful calligraphic handwriting, and he often engaged in copying his brother's poetry for publications. Alexander also allowed him to dispose of royalties from publishing. By the way, it is worth recalling that he dedicated the second chapter of "Onegin" to his younger brother.

Anger

Pushkin Lev Sergeevich, possessing a phenomenal memory, recited by heart the poems of his brilliant brother to his guests and friends. All this later disagreed in the manuscripts, so the publishers did not undertake to publish them - well, who do they need if they are recited in all the living rooms and salons of Moscow and St. Petersburg? A.S. Pushkin was angry and very offended by his brother, because he experienced serious financial problems because of him.

Alexander wrote to his friend Delvig that he knew what was happening to Leo. After him, the glory of the merry burner of life and the money of a senior relative was soon reached.

Pushkin, Lev Sergeevich, reveled in the literal and figurative sense of his role as "plenipotentiary representative" and practically nothing else did.

Brilliant brother

Count Vyazemsky wrote about him later that his memory was typographical, somewhat secret and contraband, she clearly imprinted everything in the brain that was read or pronounced. After the death of Lion, the Count considered that he had buried with him the unreleased creations of his brother Alexander Pushkin, who, like jewels, remained under a spoon. In general, the Lion brought a lot of trouble to his famous brother, but he loved him tenderly in a brotherly and strictly paternal way.

Andrey Andreevich Delvig wrote that Leo was very witty and also wrote good poetry. He had a Negro appearance, but his skin was white, his hair curled and blond by nature. Of course, what kind of Pushkin Lev Sergeyevich was, the photo can not be told to us, but his portraits, painted by contemporaries, help to add to the idea of this man.

Military career

Leo was a member of the Persian-Turkish company (1827-1829), then, until May 1831, he was on vacation, and then, being in the rank of captain, moved to the Finnish Dragoon Regiment. He also took part in the Polish company and resigned. He lived in Warsaw, then in 1833 returned to St. Petersburg and entered the service of an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then he changed his place of service to a separate Caucasian corps. When he was in the Caucasus, he heard the news of his brother's death, and he fell into despair, even wanted to go to Paris to arrange a duel with Dantes.

In the same place, in the Caucasus, L. Pushkin became friends in M. Yu. Lermontov and even attended the house of the Versilins during the quarrel between Lermontov and Martynov.

Brave Lion

Lev Pushkin was a brave officer, he was very charming and cheerful, everyone loved him: both bosses and subordinates. Brother Alexander, of course, was proud of his services - the record of Leo was full of names of battles, taken by fortresses and awards.

After resigning from the service, he moved to Odessa and worked there in the state port customs. He had a lot of women, too, but at the age of 37 he decided to create a family.

In 1843, Leo marries Zagryazhskaya Elizaveta Alexandrovna, a relative of Natalia Goncharova, with whom he maintained good relations throughout his life. In the family they had four children.

Lev Pushkin died of liver disease and dropsy, which he developed because of the constant use of alcohol. At the age of 47, he was buried at the 1st Odessa Christian cemetery.